Bruno is nine, lives in Berlin and is the son of a prominent German Nazi commandant.
It is that his father one day, is transported to a dinner with Adolf Hitler,. He will guide Auschwitz. The family moved to Bruno and is very sad, he must leave his beloved city, his friends and his amazing 5 storey house. Arriving in Auschwitz, Bruno still does not understand what he is actually here. Father was not promoted, but punished?, He wonders. After a long dreary time, Bruno decides to do something, and take Shmuel on the boy on the other side of the fence. Who are these people? Asks Bruno ....
A small, beautiful friendship develops between the two that takes a dramatic end.
John Boyne tells stylistically from the perspective of nine year old Bruno, so has the book on whether the serious subject, something to light.
What has bothered me here, however, is that Bruno is a nine year old too naive and ignorant. How can it be that a child of the Third Reich, whose father is also still a high point of Hitler's data, do not know what: war, Nazis, Hitler, concentration camps, and especially what they are Jews?
That for me is more than credible just at this time but it was a false pride and praised an impossible spread propaganda. Something would have to stay still cling to this boy ...
why there are "only" 8 points!
Summary
The nine year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution or the Holocaust. He is untouched by the terrible atrocities that his country is doing to the people of Europe. All he knows is that he has been transplanted from his comfortable home in Berlin in a house which is situated in a desolate area where he can do nothing and no one plays with him. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who was a strangely similar Existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and ekes out how all the people there, with a striped pajamas. Through his friendship with Shmuel are Bruno, the innocent boy who opened the eyes of the time. And as he explores what he is unwittingly a part, he inevitably falls into the clutches of the terrible events.
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